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Fake geek girls : fandom, gender, and the convergence culture industry / Suzanne Scott.
LIBRA HM646 .S36 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scott, Suzanne, 1979- author.
- Series:
- Critical cultural communication
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fans (Persons).
- Women in popular culture.
- Sexism in mass media.
- Feminism and mass media.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 291 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "Scott's "Fake Geek Girls" explores the issues of gender"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : make fandom great again
- A fangirl's place is in the resistance : feminism and fan studies
- "Get a life, will you people?!" : the revenge of the fanboy
- Interrogating the fake geek girl : the spreadable misogyny of contemporary fan culture
- Terms and conditions : co-opting fan labor and containing fan criticism
- One fanboy to rule them all : fantrepreneurs, fanboy auteurs and the politics of professionalization
- From poaching to pinning : fashioning postfeminist geek girl(y) culture
- Conclusion : fan studies' OTP : fandom and intersectional feminism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781479838608
- 1479838608
- 9781479879571
- 1479879576
- OCLC:
- 1081338131
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